The Allegory of the Cave

The Girl in the Cafeteria

February 8, 2019

The Girl in the Cafeteria During the summer of 2014, I worked for a month at the College Lasalle cafeteria in Montreal. It was the typical student summer job: fast paced and boring. Yet, I learned one valuable lesson during my time behind the counter (and I’m not talking about making BLTs in under […]

21rst Century Artist : Navigating Artistic Dissonance

February 6, 2019

Navigating Artistic Dissonance For an up-and-coming artist, there is usually little harmony between inner and outer pressure. Within, she is a bubbling whirl of new ideas and perspectives. Outside, popular opinion pushes and pulls her artistic independence from one wall of doubt to the other. She wants to experiment and grow; yet she also […]

Mixing Greens (pt.1)

August 30, 2018

Mixing Greens pt.1 Green is omnipresent on our planet. It covers millions of square kilometers, it pops out of the narrowest crack in the asphalt and it even ends up coloring our dinner plates (hopefully). It’s the color of life, of nature, of calm, of youth and of spring. There is hardly any escape from […]